The Narratolgy in Beckett’s Waiting for Godot and Yeats’s The Cat and the Moon (for the late Professor Daniel Albright)
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W. B. Yeats and Samuel Beckett are Modernist dramatists, different from earlier playwrights. This paper intends to demonstrate their unique use of narratology in Yeats’s The Cat and the Moon and Beckett’s Waiting for Godot. They do not make use of conventional use of foreshadowing, cause and effect sequence, or problem, climax, and resolution structure often found in a complex plot. For these playwrights the reality of the world is not shown through a fastidious depiction (narration) of the world around them but through an introspective view of the inner self: two characters are put together, instead of one with a long monologue. It is the two dramatists’ strategy to make their play dramatic; yet, although the chats between each pair appear to be random and unrelated to any of the events that follow, what they talk about reveals the reality not seen through the faculties of our eyes. This is how Yeats and Beckett depict (narrate) the actual world we live in.
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W. B. Yeats and Samuel Beckett are Modernist dramatists, different from earlier playwrights. This paper intends to demonstrate their unique use of narratology in Yeats’s The Cat and the Moon and Beckett’s Waiting for Godot. They do not make use of conventional use of foreshadowing, cause and effect sequence, or problem, climax, and resolution structure often found in a complex plot. For these playwrights the reality of the world is not shown through a fastidious depiction (narration) of the world around them but through an introspective view of the inner self: two characters are put together, instead of one with a long monologue. It is the two dramatists’ strategy to make their play dramatic; yet, although the chats between each pair appear to be random and unrelated to any of the events that follow, what they talk about reveals the reality not seen through the faculties of our eyes. This is how Yeats and Beckett depict (narrate) the actual world we live in.
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